Discussion: Iowa GOPers Miffed At New Walker Outreach Adviser For Bashing Iowa

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Tee, hee, hee! This is certainly giving them plenty to talk about in Petticoat Junction!

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The truth will set you free! Or at the very least unemployed …

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“I find her to be shallow and ignorant,”

Isn’t that a job requirement for the right wing? They think in bumper stickers (shallow) and generally their “facts” are fabricated on the spot (ignorant).

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Since he is waxing eloquent about the benefits of producing alcohol from corn in order to impress Iowa corn farmers, the dairy farmers in Wisconsin who are sick of paying three times historical prices for feed will be somewhat perturbed with Scottie. They may even wonder whose side he is on.

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They had to put Astroturf on all the football fields in Iowa. Keeps the cheerleaders from grazing.

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He’s thrown everyone who lives here under the bus to impress those tea baggers at the corn syrup factory, why not this lady as well.

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But it all makes sense. Moron Walker hires moron Mair. What’s not to understand?

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Fraternity row in Madison has a special song, just for Scotty W.

Don’t give a damn about the whole state of Iowa. Whole state of Iowa. Whole state of Iowa. Don’t give a damn about the whole state of Iowa. Who gives a shit about corn?

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Great online outreach there, Liz.

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Doesn’t “the most populous state” simply mean the state with the most people? Isn’t democracy based on the rule of the majority? Do you think it’s fair for an area with half a million people to get the same clout in Congress as an area with 40 million? I don’t understand that logic.

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Right wing political hacks not understanding that tweets are public statements are regular occurrences by now, but when your online communications adviser is that clueless maybe you should look to someone else for the job.

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Yes, most populated states should have greater representation. It’s how you get to “progress”.

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What logic do you speak of?

The Senate and the House should be the same?

What would be the point of having two separate legislative bodies, then?

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The most populated states already have greater representation. In the House.

Is this seriously a topic?

You want the Senate to be dominated by California, Texas, Florida, and New York?

Because…two out of those four states might be, at this moment, blue?

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What a mean-spirited bunch these Republicans be.

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What’s the point in a democracy of giving half a million people as much clout as 40 million?

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Dominated by? No. But some semblance of the number of people being represented wouldn’t hurt. Maybe give the states with more than 20 million inhabitants an extra Senator and take one away from the states that have less than one million inhabitants. Progressives don’t think twice about pointing out the anachronisms in the Constitution, whether it’s the removal of the 3/5ths Compromise or the argument that the 2nd Amendment did not foresee automatic assault weapons. I think it can be similarly argued that the Constitutional Convention did not imagine states with such disparate numbers of citizens. Oh, they understood differences in population, and that’s why the Senate was conceived as two representatives per state, but they never foresaw the imbalance of Wyoming versus California.

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Joni? No. Justin, yes.

http://media1.santabanta.com/full1/Global%20Celebrities(M)/Justin%20Bieber/justin-bieber-5a.jpg

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Walker thought so too…she’s gone!

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Which is why we have:

IO/WI Total population 8.8 million, US Representatives 12
CA/NY Total population 59 million, US Representatives 80